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Floating Label Input
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Floating Label Input

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A label that starts centered and gracefully floats up to the corner when the field is focused or filled.

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lines of CSS
34lines of CSS
dependencies
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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input-float.css
.fx-input-float {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 260px;
}
.fx-input-float input {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 1.1rem 0.75rem 0.5rem;
  border: 1px solid #cbd5e1;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background: transparent;
  color: inherit;
  font-size: 0.95rem;
  outline: none;
  transition: border-color 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-input-float input:focus { border-color: #10b981; }
.fx-input-float label {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0.75rem;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
  color: #94a3b8;
  pointer-events: none;
  transition: all 0.2s ease;
  font-size: 0.95rem;
}
.fx-input-float input:focus + label,
.fx-input-float input:not(:placeholder-shown) + label {
  top: 0.25rem;
  transform: translateY(0);
  font-size: 0.72rem;
  color: #10b981;
}
input-float.html
<div class="fx-input-float">
  <input type="text" placeholder=" " id="fx-input-float-field" />
  <label for="fx-input-float-field">Your email</label>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put input-float.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-input-float">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
npx hoverlab add input-float

What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

npx hoverlab add input-float

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Brief motion, no guard

Animates briefly or on interaction. Only looping motion gets a guard in this catalog; copy the one from the Insights tab if this ships on a critical path.

What it animates
Reflows

Animates font-size, top (and border-color, color). The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
No flashing found

No repeating change in opacity, colour or brightness large enough to count as a flash.

Layout shift (CLS)
May shift layout

Animates font-size, top on a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Floating Label Input

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.